Saturday, April 23, 2011

Good Friday Road Race

GFRR is always my favourite race because it’s in my backyard. With that being said last year was only my first time doing this race so the comparison to each other is vast. I raced a lot smarted in this year’s race and knew when to get off the front of group and out of the wind which really kinda impressed myself with. I am finally starting to somewhat think like a racer especially after last weekend’s race. Where to move in the group how to get out of the wind if I get stuck out in it, how to get some speed going and break the group up. Obviously it wasn’t me that did all of the work finally in the group, which I made the mistake of doing last year and not having any more gas at the end of the race.

There were some strong juniors in the race, which is nice to see some new young face in the field. I loved that we were able to stir it up and create a break. I was surprised when I finally looked back and saw how many people were with us before the last corner, which is where I made a mistake, and got myself into the wind and lost some positions in the group. Oh well lessons learned. Tactically I think I did a much better job in this race than last weekend’s race, which I am very happy about. I still need more work on short little rollers damn I know I’ll be better on them some day.

I was glad I was able to give some pointers to the newer girls in the group about following guys up the road which I did last year and got dqed from a race for. They weren’t in my category so I felt it was better just to warn her rather than let her go down the road with the guy and then get Dqed by protest. Everybody needs to learn at some point.